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Interviewer: ... did much oak grow in this area? Speaker: Not very much, because ah I remember as children we wanted oak nuts and this thing- and ah no, there wasn't any- much- but of course you-see our farm didn't have a bush lot. Interview: Too many trees. Speaker: So we didn't have much experience, it was just wonderful for us to go through a bush with anybody or- like that, you-know?

And you got ah seventy-five cents a piece for them. That was- you-know that- that- that was good, that was good going in those days. ... You couldn't buy a bush lot today even with your big skidders and-stuff and pay for it in three weeks. You couldn't do it. 'Cause it's going to cost you two-hundred-thousand or three-hundred-thousand for that.

... the school property was close to, um, (clears throat) my uncle's bush lot. And they'd let the older ones play hide-and-seek along the edges of the bush line. So you'd have some children going down and hiding in the- in the trees ...

Ah, Samson's family. There was a girl younger than I was and then the Cameron children who lived by the river and up further on the highway. They came from there, cross the highway, came through bush lot and we met half a mile before we got to school. But that- those are the only ones.

Interviewer: And are these homesteads- are these ah lands still owned by Kashubians? Interviewer: Yes. Most- most of them are- most of them are yes. But they're like bush-lots. Right? But you will see as you're walking on this trail here, going up the hill, if you don't see the hill here but, and ah- and they call this the Prussian-Hills, because our ancestors were Prussian right?

Interviewer: Was he born and raised here or? Speaker: No, no my ah- okay when- when ah this land that was not being used, a lot of these original ah owners of these- this land, they ended up ah selling them right? As bush lots, and ah my uncle bought a piece of property which is on the other side of the mountain, or the hill, and ah just for a bush lot. Now I don't know who the original owners- y-- you-know ...